Recent Submissions

Maluleke, T.S. (Tinyiko Sam)(University of South Africa, Department of Christian Spirituality, Church History and Missiology, 2017)

Although no conventional biography of Allan Boesak has been published, either by
himself or others, as far as we are aware, we have enough data and information in various
places to make small beginnings of the long overdue ...

In this article the contribution of professor Frans J. van Zyl (1913–2008) will be scrutinised
as to determine the influence his thoughts had on the theology of the Netherdutch Reformed
Church. As Van Zyl was seen as a ...

The aim of this work, Missional Focus, Form and Function are Redefining
American Christianity, is to capture and express a cohesive account of a developing
missional church movement in the United States and its influence ...

It was a day to remember, the 25th of April 1999. In the French Cathedral, in Berlin,
former Archbishop Desmond Tutu, chairman of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and Dr Alex Boraine, deputy ...

This thesis is a missiological case study on organic unity in the Uniting Presbyterian
Church in Southern Africa (UPCSA). The purpose of this study is to revisit the subject
of unity within the UPCSA consisting of three ...

This research is into the ministry of J. N. Mackenzie in Korea from a Minjung perspective.
Minjung theology grew out of the context of the military government which took power by a
coup d'état and which amended the ...

Religion and culture always exist in a close relation. Together with aesthetics and ethics,
religion constitutes culture. As ethnicity becomes part of the related concepts, the relation
with religion needs explanation. ...

Christian universities are established to integrate Christian faith, principles and virtues into their
academic programmes with the expectation that through this holistic Christocentric education,
students will be ...

The research addressed the issue of symbolic walls that divide, segregate, preserve and
institutionalise. The way in which institutions and especially the Faculty of Theology at the
University of Pretoria facilitated ...

This thesis does not attempt to castigate Africa for its collective sin. The focus
on collective sin in Mrica does not suggest that collective sin is limited to
Africa, but simply that Africa is suffering from this sin. ...

It is estimated that 10 per cent of the world’s population, approximately 650 million
people live with disability. Eighty per cent of them live in developing countries. The
needs and rights of persons with disabilities ...

ABSTRACT
This study centres on the activities of the African Pentecostal movement in Nigeria and its contribution to national development by bringing to light its perceived role in creating a better society and improved ...

This dissertation explores the theological and practical discourses of
missional leadership. Theologically, the research reinterprets various frames of
the Bible's viewpoint of the cultural mandate. Namely, the research ...

The purpose of this research is to contribute to the discussion regarding the role that the fight against poverty should play in the mission of the evangelical movement. It will consider evangelical history and trace the ...

The approach of the missionaries towards the Vhavenda was more scholarly than
practical, and had little to do with everyday realities. It appears to have been focused
on Western ethnocentricity rather than on the propagation ...

Much as the concept of missio Dei has shaped missiological thinking and the theology of mission, the growing interest in God's incarnation and embodiment may play a very formative role in missiological reflection in the ...

This article deals with the question whether it is a problem to use a static imagery of vocation. Four relatively recent systematic theological monographs by Volf, Badcock, Schuurman and Hahnenberg on the topic of vocation ...

Jean- François Bill was a significant church leader of the second half of the twentieth
century. He was born, raised and educated in South Africa, and he lived, worked and
died in South Africa. He possessed a multi-cultural ...

In 2017, the Faculty of Theology celebrates its centenary at the University of Pretoria. Celebrating
a centennial is as much as looking back as looking forward. In a changing world with changing
paradigms how does one ...

Religious Studies is concerned with studying religion or the absence thereof. The concept of
religion has been discussed, disliked and dissected over centuries. Some have predicted the
disappearance of religion, others ...